Re: CPA - An ASCII-based phonetic alphabet
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 17, 2001, 3:45 |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:15:41 -0500, Steve Kramer <scooter@...> wrote:
>With all of the various ideas being offered for ASCII-IPAs, is there a feeling
>among the list that X-SAMPA is inadequate for our needs here? I must admit to
>finding it counter-intuitive, but then, I'm a beginning student. If so, perhaps
>we could all agree on modifications to CPA or the other standard advanced, and
>use it instead as our own list standard?
I (and likely others) settled on X-SAMPA because it _was_ adequate for my
needs, where other proposed systems had been lacking. But there's no doubt
that X-SAMPA is inelegant, and it's not hard to come up with more pleasing
systems that work better. The problem is that everyone has a slightly
different definition of "better". But I'd gladly switch to another system
if we set one up as an informal Conlang list standard (assuming that it can
represent all the sounds and diacritics of the IPA).
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